“If I caught a Leprechaun, I would eat it.”

9/1/11

 

when we heard about the hurricane coming our way my mother decided to distract her anxious self by intensely cleaning the house.  we came across one box of drawings from when julia and i were very young. 

in a composition notebook i found 3 drawings i did: janette, julia and jessica. 

and i found on another page “I HAT YOU BERBBY.  i WiL Pee on you BERBBY,” the “y”s of the “you”s are all backwards.  who is Berbby?  maybe Bubby?  or a kid named Bobby?

i found a couple of storybooks i made with  the help of my mom.  Cover page: lots of things written backwards.  last name spelled forwards, first named spelled like a mirror image.  lots of curly brown scribbles.  Page 1: “my tree has a bird in a bird’s nest.”  general shape of a tree with a purple scribble in the middle – nest?  Page 2: “Another tree with another bird.”  General shape of a tree with a black scribble.  Page 3: Jessica practices copying the numbers mom wrote out.  Jessica is only able to do the shape of a six, which she does for most of the numbers.  Page 4: strange scribbles in purple, brown and green.  what do children think when they are drawing?  do they see something special?  do they have any method to what they are doing? Page 5: brown scribbles. Page 6: green scribbles.  Page 7: green scribbles.  Page 8: green scribbles.  page 9: green scribbles.  page 10: green scribbles.

another piece of art i must have done on st. patrick’s day.  at the bottom it says: “If I caught a Leprechaun, I would eat it.”